Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Marra

A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.

Charles Holmes

As far as I'm concerned the guy was crooked as a snake. Wyatt Earp was a deputy U.S. marshal at the time of the shootout. Virgil was a deputy U.S. marshal, and the chief of police...Morgan had been authorized as a constable...Wyatt Earp had warrants for these characters, and the sheriff had warrants for Wyatt Earp. So it was crazy the way things were done.

Joe Meno

As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

J. A. Konrath

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Neil Gaiman

Authors know that you should never really write a funny book because funny books do not get awards. Comic novels will not get awards.

Kevin O'Connor

Any decent person, using their common sense would know they no longer have the authority to be in a homicide scene.

William Scott

The theory on my part is to read; reading is the answer. Read anything that you can get your hands on. I would try to make sure that the author has something to say. Take a wide selection of authors: old, new, prose, poets, novels, epics, and all that stuff. ..Think about it and find something to talk about.

Lynn Coady

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

O. J. Simpson

As a result, this potential source of funding will be delayed well beyond the six month period.

Ben Halliburton

Profitability in the first-quarter and beyond is going to continue to be strong and the broader economy is clearly in a recovery phase,

Larry Gregory

Progress on the Gulf Coast has been very positive. We've gotten our first month of our gross revenues (and) the numbers coming in are beyond anyone's wildest expectations.

Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Joseph Crowley

Our differences are great and our challenges are great because both our countries are great. We both have a great responsibility to solve problems well beyond our borders.

John Shelby Spong

Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.

John Mason

Our decision was that it was beyond the scope of something that was reasonable.

Tom Buiocchi

Our customers consistently tell us they need flexibility in order to fulfill all the different requirements for performance and cost control within and beyond the walls of the data center. Our commitment is to provide our partners and customers with the right mix of technologies to connect, consolidate, and ultimately better control enterprise data storage and server assets.

O. Henry

People sometimes disagree. I don't think you can have healthy relationships without disagreements and an organization is not going to evolve beyond mediocrity without them. This is not the same organization that Theo left. There was enough discord then to give Theo legitimate reasons to move on.

John Langdon

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Hiroichi Nishi

As a series of key economic events is scheduled this week in both Japan and the United States, it's hard to make major moves now.

Brian Orol

As a planner and a dad, I think it's wonderful. I'm doing this for both my boys.

Carmen Schoolcraft

As a whole, we didn't play up to our potential. We kept them out of the circle okay, except for the one goal, but on the rest of the field they pretty much dominated us in both halves. We just got outplayed today, and the limited opportunities we had, we didn't finish off.

Gerald Turner

As a graduate of both our undergraduate program and our school of law, she brings honor to SMU through this nomination and through her distinguished legal career,

Ron Fournier

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

David Morrissey

As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.

Bill Sadler

As a defensive measure all of the officers had drawn service weapons and aimed at the individual while they continued to repeatedly order the man to show both hands.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Patrick Rooney

You see people on rooftops. You see people separated from parents. There's a lot of empathy and sympathy.

Brene Brown

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Stephen Covey

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Stephen Covey

Seek to understand rather than be understood.

Stefan Molyneux

Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant talk about them openly - if we get attacked for it then this is an anti-empathetic movement and therefore it cannot complain about a lack of empathy.

Stephen Covey

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.

John Shirley

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

Theodor Adorno

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

Maureen O'Hara

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Veronica Corpuz

It would leave the producers and our patrons in a fix and we don't want to jeopardize the experience for anyone.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Brian Jacques

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Cesar Milstein

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."

Catherine Ponder

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Arthur C. Clarke

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

Blaise Pascal

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Elinor Wylie

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Stephen Jay Gould

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Renee Miller

(Future Cities) is a very intense project. It involves teachers, parents and the community.

Douglas Coupland

For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.

John McDonald

one of the most intense individuals I've ever met in my life.

Elyse Stoller

She's really intense, but she pushes us to do our best. Our practices are really intense but fun.

Wendy Ward

She and her caddy take it to a very intense level. It's in her character. As much as I'd like to play the way she's playing right now, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Mike Kundick

She is probably as intense in the room as you want. She practices right with them.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Billy Crystal

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

Albert Einstein

when u knw ur limits u go byond them

Dorothy L. Sayers

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

Constance Baker Motley

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Ray Stevens

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

Simon Newcomb

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

Stirling Moss

It's hard to drive at the limit, but it's harder to know where the limits are.

Victor Hugo

If the infinite had no me, then me would be its limit. It would not be the infinite, therefore it would not be.

Usain Bolt

I can still improve a lot, but there is definitely a limit to what the human body can do.

Barbara Pym

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

Jane Smiley

Novelists never have to footnote.

Jane Smiley

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

Michel Faber

All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve.

Amos Oz

Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well.

Amos Oz

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

Anne Enright

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Tom Sizemore

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.